So often you see teams produce stunning cup upset performances and then revert to type in the league and Nottingham Forest can’t allow that to happen.

The Arsenal game has gone now and as brilliant as that performance was, they have to put that to bed and worry about Aston Villa because they’re going well in the Championship and it’ll be a very tough encounter.

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Thankfully, given the size of Villa, it should ensure Forest are right up for it, compared to if they were playing a smaller, less fashionable club where there's a danger of complacency.

Villa boss Steve Bruce (Image: Getty)

Villa got battered by Peterborough and you know for a fact Steve Bruce won’t have been happy with that. He’d have stirred everything up this week and would have told them that Forest could be a little vulnerable after Sunday’s game, or it could lift them after a couple of home defeats on the spin in the league.

The stature, the history and the tradition of both clubs is there and that suggests it should be an absolute cracker under the lights - though it still feels strange to think of this game with two former European Champions being contested in the second tier.

A word of caution, though, just because you’ve got a point at Leeds and beaten Arsenal, don’t automatically assume you’ll beat Villa – football doesn’t work like that and I’m sure the manager will be acutely aware of that.